Theater as a tool to educate African Americans about breast cancer

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 297-300

  Livingston, Jonathan N ^a,c   Smith, Nina P ^c   Mills, Catherine ^c   Singleton, Dorothy M ^b   Dacons Brock, Karen ^c   Richardson, Ricardo ^a   Grant, Delores ^a   Craft, Howard ^c   Harewood, Ken ^a  

^a Julius L Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute   (United States)

^b School of Education   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHODRAMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PSYCHODRAMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 73949153323     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08858190902997274     Document Type: Article

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